House Photos
Location
From this house you will enjoy an unobstructed view of the lower valley and its spectacular surrounding hillsides that divide the roads leading to Rome and Bolsena, famous for its beautiful lake.
Being on the west side of town, this is where people come to enjoy clean and colorful sunsets.
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Main Living Floor
This top floor is where you will spend most of your time. Everything you need is here: living room, small kitchen, bedroom, bathroom with shower, a small studio with a small sofa bed and stairs that will take you to the lower floors.
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Discovery Area
Once you get down here and pass through this Gothic arch, you will be in a large room with intersecting Roman arches, vaults, loft/bedroom, wine cellar, full bathroom with laundry room, and access to the excavated Etruscan caves.
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The Etruscan Caves
During the restoration of this house, over 2000 cubic feet of "historical dirt" were taken out of this area. What was there? Dirt and more. What I can tell you is that Orvieto in the past had a very strict law forbidding anyone from throwing anything out of the RUPE, the huge tufa bluff rock where Orvieto was built to protect itself from invasions. Following the Etruscan tradition, people in Orvieto were allowed to cut tufa rock deep in the underground, build houses and then fill up the excavated areas with anything that could not be thrown out...
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